Subject: Re: 64-bit-clean userland on mips [was Re:
To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
From: Castor Fu <castor@geocast.net>
List: port-mips
Date: 01/20/1999 10:00:22
On Wed, 20 Jan 1999, Jason Thorpe wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Jan 1999 11:26:51 +0900 (JST) 
>  Noriyuki Soda <soda@sra.co.jp> wrote:
> 
>  > The port which uses MIPS_64BIT_CLEAN should use another magic number
>  > for the executables. (to distinguish the executables and the shared
>  > objects are compatible with existing MIPSLE32 or not)
> 
> Yes.  The different magic numbers will select different emuls, which will
> have the correct pointers for the right setregs, etc. functions.

This sounds like a fine solution.  I'll flush out the genpubassym stuff
probably today, and start reading through the emul stuff to see how that 
works.  We want this to support the n32 programming model, too.

	-castor